Holiday sales in a year with TP hoarding

[Jan Croot]

A question to ponder.

If people are hoarding TP now, seeing 401ks and oil drop like a rock, will they be willing to splurge on high end local poultry for the holidays?

Will they spend $40 or $50 on a goose, heritage turkey, Moskovy duck, or will they settle for a $15 broad breasted turkey from Walmart?

 

[hysop]

They’re only hoarding TP because of some meme is my guess. Unfortunately people rarely splurge on what counts. A small handful do but not everyone. That’s my take on it anyway. I don’t eat goose or duck, but I do want a turkey, but I wouldn’t spend more on a turkey than what I can get at the store during the annual turkey sale unless I’m raising it from a chick.

But what I have noticed is people rather have the bird ready to eat than them having to do the deed of killing it and dressing it.

If it goes on any longer then probably people will pay whatever price for food, but I don’t foresee this lasting long enough for people to have to sky rocket prices on food.

 

[Timothy Menezes]

As long as food is plentiful, and I think it will be, then most will probably opt for the cheaper option this year. However as someone else mentioned, if inexpensive food is scarce then people will likely pay the higher price for whatever else is available. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Acre4Me]

Doubt it. But, where are you located? You can add your general location to your profile.

are you raising turkeys etc? Are you planning to sell?

 

[aart]

No, but folks are yakking about getting chickens due to the coronapocalypse.

 

[CatWhisperer]

Folks aren’t just yakking about it, they’re doing it.

 

[Lauravonsmurf]

The feed stores in my area are selling out of chicks within 20 to 30 minutes of getting them, breed or sex does not matter.... this is not normal, usually it takes a few days for stores to sell all their chicks. The stores are having trouble getting their orders filled too. The suburbanites and urbanites are buying them faster than the feed stores can get them. I normally don’t have problems getting chicks, but this time it was a race, all the breeds people know were sold out... all the meat and well known egg laying breeds. I ended up with a weird mix of breeds that was what was left. Hubby and I decided to order chicks direct from a hatchery, we ordered mostly ornamental breeds we have not kept before may as well try a few new breeds. We ordered an incubator... deciding what sort of chickens we want to incubate after that arrives.

 

[Jan Croot]

No, but folks are yakking about getting chickens due to the coronapocalypse.

Our USPS processing centers are seeing triple the number of live birds coming through. Never seen the like.

Search twitter for "chicken coop" and find a surprising number of people saying they spent their $1200 stimulus check on a backyard chicken coop set up.

My local ranch usually has a few special order request for chicks. This year she has nine page list of special orders. Folks are asking about when her next orders are coming in, because all the stock orders are sold out within two hours of opening the doors.

 

[Jan Croot]

Our USPS processing centers are seeing triple the number of live birds coming through. Never seen the like. Stores sold out in two hours. A store that in the past had a few special orders, this year has pages and pages of orders.

The volume is so large from PA to WY, that the Lancaster PA USPS processing center is presorting boxes heading to various Wyoming destinations into self contained air freight containers, so that Denver does not have to open the container but just put them on trucks heading north. If this level is duplicated accross the nation... we are talking about an explosion of birds. Amazed that hatcheries can keep up.

A small remote Wyoming town no one remembered every getting birds before had 50 ---fifty boxes of live birds come though. They drafted an employee with with a van to make a special trip, due to the remote location, with the recipient meeting them at the nearest paved road. Hats off to USPS --- glitches -- but heroes too.

 

[hysop]

A question to ponder.

If people are hoarding TP now, seeing 401ks and oil drop like a rock, will they be willing to splurge on high end local poultry for the holidays?

Will they spend $40 or $50 on a goose, heritage turkey, Moskovy duck, or will they settle for a $15 broad breasted turkey from Walmart?

By the looks of it, meat and dairy aren’t looking too good if they continue slaughtering and dumping. So maybe people will pay a pretty penny to be able to get food period.

But I’m optimistic and hope this is just temporary, but I’m also not naive to sit on my hands thinking life will be the same as it was.